Chapter 8: Yu Ge is in a Very Bad Mood Right Now

Watching her grandfather hunched over in front of the sink, trying his best to endure and not make a sound, Zhu Yuan felt as if her heart were being sliced by a knife.

She retreated to the side of the hospital bed without a word.

She did not want her grandfather to discover her.

Not until the sound of water in the restroom stopped and she heard her grandfather clearing his throat did she lower her head, tears in her eyes, and pour water into a cup. "Grandfather, I poured you some water, remember to drink it. I'm going to the doctor's office first."

Before her tears could spill over, Zhu Yuan hurried out of the ward and rushed into the stairwell, covering her mouth to stifle her sobs, her entire body collapsing to the floor as if all her strength had been drained away.

That night when she was drugged and confronted by everyone, she had never felt so aggrieved, because she only wanted to stabilize the Lu Family; as long as she didn't offend the Lu Family, the Zhu Family would pay for her grandfather's treatment.

Yet, she still couldn't save her grandfather.

What should she do? What was she supposed to do?

Zhu Chaoqin said the Sheng Family could easily resolve the Zhu Family's predicament.

The reason Sheng Yu helped her was because of Lu Huaizhan's dying request; he might step in once or twice, but once she crossed the line, it would become an entanglement.

Sheng Yu was a person who could not be provoked; she didn't know what the consequences would be, but the thought chilled her to the bone.

……

"Zhu Lao Xiansheng has been vomiting almost everything he eats these past two days. We've been giving him nutrient solution to barely maintain his strength, but this is not a long-term solution."

"In his current condition, it is best to arrange for surgery as soon as possible."

Zhu Yuan sat in the doctor's office, her fingers twisting together. "Is the success rate of the surgery high?"

"I can only tell you the truth: fifty percent."

Zhu Yuan's pupils trembled, and her eye sockets suddenly grew hot.

She knew very well what a low success rate meant.

She opened her mouth, her voice hoarse. "Then if... there is no surgery, how much longer can my grandfather hold on?"

"The previous conservative estimate was about half a year, but looking at Zhu Lao Xiansheng's current situation, it is less than three months. I have already discussed this situation with your parents," the doctor said with a grave expression.

"What did you say?" Zhu Yuan was stunned.

The doctor looked surprised. "Didn't your parents tell you?"

Zhu Yuan understood everything in that moment. No wonder the Zhu Family wanted to cut off her grandfather's medical expenses; it turned out they had consulted the doctor long ago, and seeing the low success rate of the surgery, they became even more determined to give up on his treatment.

"Miss Zhu, I hope you and your family will consider this carefully. The earlier the surgery, the higher the success rate. If you don't want the surgery, then just spend some quality time with the old gentleman."

Zhu Yuan looked up at the ceiling and blinked, forcing her tears back. She took a deep breath, stood up, and bowed to the doctor. "Thank you, Doctor. I will give you an answer very soon."

Returning to the ward, her grandfather was already asleep.

Zhu Yuan sat by the bed, looking at her grandfather, who had become gaunt, and blamed herself for her uselessness.

After leaving the ward, Zhu Yuan took the elevator to the lobby on the first floor. As she walked out of the elevator, she heard a man by the window talking on the phone.

"Don't worry about the money, I've already borrowed it... Yes, I went to a loan shark."

Zhu Yuan stopped in her tracks.

The man, standing sideways to her, continued, "I don't have anything valuable to mortgage, only the Pei Family Bank will lend me money... As long as I pay it back on time, it'll be fine. I'll treat the illness first, I'll handle the rest later."

Zhu Yuan bit her lip. The Pei Family Bank?

When Zhu Yuan turned to leave, the man caught a glimpse of her back in his peripheral vision. With a grave expression, he moved the phone away from his ear; the screen was pitch black.

He hadn't been on a call at all.

He withdrew his gaze and picked up his phone to dial a number.

"I've said what you instructed. She was standing there listening for a while just now; I don't know if she took it in."

A woman's gentle voice came from the other end of the line: "She took it in."

The man hesitated. "The Pei Family Bank is a place that eats people without spitting out the bones. That young girl doesn't look very old. If we do this..."

"What about us?" the woman interrupted him. Her voice remained gentle, yet it carried a faint, light laugh.

"If we guide her to the Pei Family Bank, isn't that pushing her into a pit of fire?"

No sooner had the man finished speaking than the woman's warning followed: "She is in desperate need of money right now. We are helping her, how could we be harming her? Watch your own mouth!"

……

Zhu Yuan walked out of the hospital and hailed a taxi.

She did not go to the Pei Family Bank, but instead headed to the Sheng Group.

However, half an hour later, when Zhu Yuan stood at the front desk of the Shengshi Financial Group, she heard the receptionist say that Sheng Yu was away on a business trip.

Zhu Yuan suppressed her anxiety and asked, "Then do you know when he will be back?"

Since Lu Huaizhan's funeral that day, Zhu Yuan hadn't seen him, and she didn't have Sheng Yu's contact information.

The receptionist shook her head politely. "I'm sorry, Miss, we are not aware of the President's travel schedule."

Just as Zhu Yuan walked out of the lobby, at a loss for what to do, she heard a somewhat familiar voice—

"Little sister-in-law!"

Zhu Yuan looked up blankly. She stood in the drafty entrance and met Yuan Fengye's smiling eyes. "It really is you. I thought I'd seen wrong."

Yuan Fengye walked over with his long strides. "Why are you here?"

This was the building of the Sheng Group; she wasn't an employee here, nor did she work nearby. No matter how one looked at it, it didn't seem like she had just wandered here by chance.

Zhu Yuan hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm looking for Sheng Yu."

"Ah, that's too bad. Yu Ge is away on a business trip and won't be back until the day after tomorrow."

The day after tomorrow...

Zhu Yuan was extremely anxious. Tomorrow was the final deadline. If she could only see Sheng Yu the day after tomorrow, and he refused to lend her the money, there would be no time left.

The hospital couldn't possibly grant her that much of an extension.

She had no choice but to ask Yuan Fengye, "Can you give me his phone number?"

"This..." Yuan Fengye was in a difficult position. He wouldn't dare give out Yu Ge's private number casually, even if the person in front of him was Lu Huaizhan's fiancée, that still wouldn't do.

Seeing his dilemma, Zhu Yuan did not want to force him, so she asked again: "Then can you give him a call? I have an urgent matter to find him for."

Yuan Fengye saw that she was in a desperate hurry; for such a beautiful girl to be pushed to this extent, it must be a very serious matter.

For the sake of Zhan Ge, he had to help with this favor.

He nodded, "Alright."

Yuan Fengye dialed Sheng Yu's number right in front of her, but a few seconds later he suddenly shivered, only then remembering that it was the middle of the night in Country M, and Sheng Yu was still sleeping!

Disturbing Yu Ge's sweet dreams—he must not want to live anymore!

He prayed in his heart that Sheng Yu hadn't heard it and was just about to hang up the phone, when unexpectedly, the ringing tone on the phone was replaced by a low, hoarse voice: "What is it?"

The tone faintly revealed a sense of impatience.

Yuan Fengye immediately felt the back of his neck go cold, then turned to look at Zhu Yuan, who was standing beside him with eyes shining, and he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "Yu Ge, it's not that I have something to ask you, it's Zhan Ge's little sister-in-law."

"Who?"

Yuan Fengye's heart trembled, and he secretly thought, "Oh no."

He heard the sound of a lighter igniting on the other end of the phone, and for some reason, he felt that Yu Ge was in a very bad mood right now.

Perhaps he was angry from being woken up by this phone call.